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Monday, May 10, 2010

Silly Monkey Stories #98 - Entrepreneur

(En español más abajo)

09/May/2010 – Juan (11)

I like it when kids manage to still be completely unpredictable, no matter how much we know them – or think we do. Juan is one of those kids, he has the ability to surprise us almost every day. Sometimes, what he says or does is really funny, but he doesn’t always mean it… So we better be careful not to hurt his feelings. But there are times when we just can’t do anything about it.

Take Sunday’s night dinner, for example. Juan, Caro and Flor had been playing outside, with some other neighbourhood kids for the entire afternoon and just came back home at around 8:30 PM (yes, we have dinner at that time, there’s still some Argentine behaviour in us). Juan seemed particularly happy. We asked him what was going on and he said:

- My friend and I will start our own business

Knowing Juan, every time he refers to somebody as ‘my friend’, chances are he’s talking about somebody we had never heard about until that moment. We asked him who ‘his friend’ was and he said his name. No clue who he was. Gaby wanted to find out a little more…

- What kind of business?

- We’re going to sell necklaces and dog food

- (Barely holding laughter) Necklaces and… dog food?

- Yes, I’m going to make the necklaces using Florencia’s beads. Flor, can I have your beads?

- No!

- OK. And my friend will take care of the dog food.

- (Santi and Caro are laughing their butts off). HOW??!! Is he going to buy it and resell it?

- No! He’s going to make his own brand of dog food.

- (Me and Flor joined in the laughter. Juan is getting angry) How are you going to do that? What is he going to use???!!